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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Hele's Top 5: Favorite Book Covers from my TBR Pile

Accepted Readers, I wanted to post something quick and fun today, so I decided one another Hele's Top 5. I hope you don't mind. This list of my top 5 will include my favorite covers from books I haven't read yet but hope to read soon. The only rule, I had to own the book. (Doesn't matter what format) Sounds pretty simple right? Ha... It wasn't with so many pretty covers to choose from! BUT at last, I made my decision. I won't go into why I like each cover simply because that would turn this into a REALLY long post. I'll just say that I LOVE THEM ALL! =-P*I've taken the liberty to include the blurb of each book and goodreads link (just click on the book's title)

In a land where magic
has been forgotten but peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest
is simmering. Three kingdoms grapple for power—brutally transforming
their subjects' lives in the process. Amidst betrayals, bargains, and
battles, four young people find their fates forever intertwined:

Cleo: A
princess raised in luxury must embark on a rough and treacherous
journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long thought extinct.

Jonas: Enraged
at injustice, a rebel lashes out against the forces of oppression that
have kept his country impoverished—and finds himself the leader of a
people's revolution centuries in the making.

Lucia: A
girl adopted at birth into a royal family discovers the truth about her
past—and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield.

Magnus: Bred
for aggression and trained to conquer, a firstborn son begins to
realize that the heart can be more lethal than the sword. . . .

The only outcome that's certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed?

So
did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost
he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly
athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their
spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the
murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at
bay.

Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in
Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead
is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced
before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal
murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood.
Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to
step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

When Ruby woke up on
her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming
enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police.
Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government
"rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease
that's killed most of America's children, but she and the others have
emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot
control.

Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.

When
the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now
she's on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids
like her-East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own
camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter
how much she aches for him, Ruby can't risk getting close. Not after
what happened to her parents.

When they arrive at East River,
nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there
are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in
their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible
choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth
living.

Chava is a golem, a
creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles
in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who commissioned
her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift
as the ship arrives in New York in 1899.

Ahmad is a jinni, a
being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped in an old
copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released
accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. Though he is no
longer imprisoned, Ahmad is not entirely free – an unbreakable band of
iron binds him to the physical world.

The Golem and the Jinni
is their magical, unforgettable story; unlikely friends whose tenuous
attachment challenges their opposing natures – until the night a
terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. But a
powerful threat will soon bring Chava and Ahmad together again,
challenging their existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice

Briony has a secret. It
is a secret that killed her stepmother, ruined her sister's mind, and
will end her life, if anyone were to know. She has powers. Then Eldric
comes along with his golden lion eyes and a great mane of tawny hair. He
is as natural as the sun, and he treats her as if she is extraordinary.
And everything starts to change . . . Chime is a haunting, brilliantly written novel that will stay with you--its magic, its romance, its world like none other.

The End.

What do you think of the book covers I've chosen?

What 5 book covers from your To-Be-Read Pile would you say are your top favorites? Leave a comment telling me below!